Gilbert gibbs



llgniieh gieten geirrt @Hire Leiters Patent No. 82,398, dated! Sepieinber 2Q', 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATES.'

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Be it known that I, GILBERT Gines, of Fairview, in the county of Switzerlnnd, and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Farm-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following ie a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make und use the eame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming pari of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of farm-gates, which are vso arranged that nl person on horseback or i a vehicle, muy openand close them, without alighting for the piirpose, ns with ordinarj'gates; and this `invention consists in the peculiar devices for accomplishing this object, and also in several devices for raising the gate topreveut its dragging on the ground, as ordinary gates will often do.

Figure 1 is o. plan. Figure 2 is an elevation. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parte.

A. is thegnte, B the holt-lever, and C the posi: to which thegate is hung. This pcst'is framed to asili, Z,l

at either end of which are the poets s s. On these posts are the levers D D, for opening Vand closing the gute, their rear ende `being :attached` to the hars S S, for communicating their motion to the curved Alever E," which is hung onithe .gotepcst,0ns shown. At the -end of the lever E nearest the gate, is attached the link or bail a, said link projecting ohliquely forward, and surrounding the neck of the lever B, as shown.

' The lever G is attached-tothe bolt u in s ,ueh a manner that a pressure against itfrom the front draws the holt from the catch c. p is a g'uide for'thc lever B.

'Oper-ation.

The opergrion is shown ing. 1, red lines indicating the -position of the gute; and the direction of the pressure required cn `the levers D D. lt `will he seen thntthe rst pressure' on th/e levers tends to drawback the bolt n, throifgh medium of the oblique position ofthe link a and lever B, thus freeing thegate before opening it. i

The devices for raising the gate are as follows:

0n the hinge-rod g is u. collar, y, with o. set-screw. It will readily be seen that the collar ma-ybe slipped uptrend-to a lhnited height, and the set-screw tightened; und, as the upper hinge rests on the said collar, the

gate will remaiuiraised :xs'long as desired. .l In thclower edgeof the upper bar of thegote, near the frontetile, are notches, into which fits the bolt d, which passes through -the upper ends ofthe diagonaie KfKfthe lower ends `turning one. heli: in the lower bar.

By raising the front stile of the gate, the bolt d 4 may be made to .engage with any desired, notch, thus raising the gate, as eliowninvited lines, iig. 2.

Thclower'hingezcf the gate is attached to a narrow har, as shown, the front-end of the' said-.bar being per- By damning-the lower pm; of the gate forward, and inserting thepin I; inmediately behindgthefrnnt stile, I

the getmay he raised ct the forward end.

` Attached to the post C, und in a line with the gzite, isa panel of fence, the hars, m m m, of which are attached to the posts C and G, with single pinsor bolts. J is' a diagonal, attached to thelower bar otono end,-

andihvingthe other bevelledrto lit notches in'the post G. O is a sill, to which the Post Gis attached.' It will lie-understood that, by raising the po'st G, the bevel on the degonal J may be made to enghge with the lgwer notch, and thus keep the post Graised New, by forcing the post to thel gvroundtahd attaching it rmly thereto,` theigate will be lcorri'zspomiingly raised at its forward end.

The post Mlmay be eet vin the ground, in practice,-or attached to a sill, as shown. Having thus described my invention, what I claim-as new, and desire' to secure by Lettere Patent, ie-

1; T he'obline link a, in connection with4 the central lever E, when so arranged es to draw thc`boltn from the catch or socket e before opening the gate, substantially es shown und specified. l

2. In combination with the bolt'n, lever B, link a, and central lever E, the bars S S, and hand-levers D D,

all arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for the purposes as set forth.

' i' Attaching a panel composed of the post G, diagonal Il, and hater/m m m, and sill O, with aI gate, when U. the panel is so arranged, that, by means of the notches in the post G, the forward pari: ofthe gate maybe raised,

as describedand shown.

Witness my hand, this 7th day of Ju'ly, 1868.

. y his GILBERT GIBBS.

mark.

Witnesses:

HENnr GonNUTE, Jr.,

J; TIFFTS. 

